Tell it to the hand -- the Chilean government model for dealing with UFOs in rational fashion makes too much sense to rate MSM coverage in the U.S./CREDIT: dominicantoday.com

“The control tower would’ve communicated no later than the next day with CEFAA, which would have gotten copies of all tapes, logbooks or radar information,” says Chilean-America journo Antonio Huneeus from Tucson, Ariz. “Pilots and other employees would have been given questionaires to complete, and within a few weeks, CEFAA would have issued a statement with conclusions.

“But here, it’s a mess. The government didn’t say anything, so a newspaper was the first to break the story, which forced [the FAA] to try to come up with a debunking explanation. It’s too bad.”

Despite the release of airport radio-chatter audio recordings from the 11/7/06 Chicago incident, not a single eyewitness has gone on record to stand up for what they saw.

Dissolve to Chile, which created the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA) in 1997. Established within that country’s civil aviation department, CEFAA routinely and transparently logs reports from commercial and military pilots alike; furthermore, it doesn’t shy away from cases that could have national security implications, such as a near collision in 2003 involving a 737 and a metallic-looking triangle.

That’s why, instead of having to invent a bogus fall guy if/when this country sustains a UFO-related aviation catastrophe, Uncle Sam might want to hear what Ricardo Bermudez Sanhueza has to say when he makes his first appearance in the States next month. The retired Chilean air force general runs the CEFAA, and he’ll be speaking at the International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills, Ariz., on Feb. 25.

Huneeus, editor of Open Minds Magazine, describes CEFAA as “a small department with a small budget” that nevertheless is part of a South American trend. Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Brazil each have official UFO reporting agencies. And unlike the British Ministry of Defense, which shuttered its own public UFO office in 2010 — littered as it was with largely worthless civilian anecdotes — CEFAA sticks to reports filed by more discerning aviation professionals. Its data-sharing studies with the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena, a private U.S. study group, have already produced compelling results.

“I know Bermudez is going to have some kind of proposal for concrete action,” Huneeus says. “He’ll show that this is a serious subject, not just for flying saucer buffs or conspiracy theorists.”

Then where’s the incentive for the American media to learn anything about CEFAA?